For McGaughey, being the favorite in the Preakness is preferable to coming in as the long shot.
For a defense contractor, says Chao, the long shot is the possibility of exploiting government-funded weapons research for civilian applications.
The Kael who comes into focus in the long shot is a different sort of critic, haunted by the old classics and obsessed with the place of movies in the canon of lasting art.
The top finisher in the John Deere not otherwise exempt for the British Open will earn a spot the following week at St Andrews, leaving open the long-shot possibility that Wie could play in the major championship and skip the Public Links.
The latest long shot: General Motors buys DaimlerChrysler 's Chrysler Group.
The long-shot experiment worked, they reported in Nature Neuroscience in 2005.
Indeed, the smart money right now might well be on the seemingly long-shot bet that Warren Christopher will outlast Strobe Talbott at the State Department.
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Plus, the beauty of a long shot winner is that the payouts are always better.
Gibson made an immediate impact by playing a major part in the Republic's third goal on 54 minutes with Christiansen unable to hold the substitute's long-range shot and Long reacting to fire home the rebound from 12 yards.
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Assuming that the figure was similar during the Cretaceous, it would be a long shot that the first fossil meteorite to turn up from 65m years ago was made of such a rock unless a huge extra supply of carbonaceous chondrite had suddenly arrived on the planet.
The graph below, from Christopher Knittel, shows that we have the lowest gas taxes in the OECD by a long shot, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, have the highest per capita usage as well.
Jupiter Research Research Director Michael Gartenberg calls the project a long shot.
Two-and-a-half lengths behind the winner was long shot Golden Soul.
However, he was still smarting from an overrule when facing break point in the second set, when the line judge mistakenly called a Federer shot long and the Swiss lost the replayed point.
Toronto had a couple of scoring chances, the first coming off a long shot from Robert Earnshaw that sailed high of the net.
The former France international threaded his pass into the box for Wright-Phillips, who slid his shot past the long reach of Pantilimon.
Sergi Moreno tested Shay Given in the 17th-minute with a long-range shot which the safety-first Irish keeper pushed away for a corner.
Midfielder Javier Mascherano, playing at right-back for the Anfield side, saw his long-range shot skim the top of the crossbar shortly before the break.
"I'd hoped to make it through to the final 10 but it was a bit of a long shot, " the 37-year-old told BBC Sport.
Rooney came on for Tevez for the last 20 minutes and his first involvement in the game was a long-range shot which Boruc turned round the post.
Were this 2011, the Cards would have been a long shot by mid-September to catch the Braves, while L.A. and Milwaukee would have been hopelessly out of it.
David Robertson could have settled the tie in the injury time, but blasted his long-range shot off the crossbar.
And when the category creator executes well, we have found that it can win the market by a long shot and produce fantastic returns.
The second shot landed long, but wide of the marked sideline.
He was told that the group had already made up its mind to buy from a different vendor that had submitted a convincing request for proposal, so the project was a long shot.
In fact, ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, just announced the most performed holiday songs of the past five years and "Auld Lang Syne" didn't make the list by a long shot.
Jerome Thomas, a real threat on the left wing for the visitors most of the afternoon, hit a clever curling shot from long range in the sixth minute.
Ferguson's side finally showed something like their best attacking play when Tevez forced an opening down the right wing, but Wayne Rooney dallied too long on his shot and the chance came and went.
The contest was over a minute before the break as Fordyce lashed a glorious shot to the net from long-range.
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